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Then There Were Three
1963 is the year The Beatles take the pop world by storm. It is the year when Cilla Black and Dusty Springfield make their chart débuts. It is also the year when Lyn Paul takes her first steps towards stardom...
From a young age Lyn wanted to be a singer, though as she told a TV audience in 1974, she nearly decided on an alternative career:
"It was about three months before I took my '11 Plus' and I decided that if I was lucky enough to pass my '11 Plus', which I wasn't, that I'd be an air-hostess... I thought: 'that's it! I'm going to get the blue uniform, I'm going to fly, I'm going to see the world'. But I didn't pass so I couldn't be an air-hostess. So I went back to singing. I thought: 'no, I'll stick to what I was going to do originally'."
(Val Meets The VIPs, 6th December 1974, BBC1)
In 1963, having read an article in Romeo magazine which highlighted the dearth of women singers on the pop scene, Lyn decides to do something about it. She approaches friends at the Joan Lawrence Dancing School in Wythenshawe and forms an all-girl trio called the Chrys-Do-Lyns - fifteen-year-old Christine Lowe, sixteen-year-old Doreen Jones and fourteen-year-old Lynda Susan Belcher.
Showbiz here we come!
The Chrys-Do-Lyns
featuring (left to right) Lynda Belcher (Lyn Paul),
Doreen Jones and Christine Lowe.
 
By 1963 girl trios had become all the rage. The Shirelles had made an impact on the charts as early as 1961 with Will You Love Me Tomorrow. The Crystals followed in '62 with He's A Rebel and did even better in '63 with Da Doo Ron Ron and Then He Kissed Me. The Chiffons joined them in the charts with He's So Fine and One Fine Day, while the Angels also had a minor hit with My Boyfriend's Back. With these American acts leading the way, the Chrys-Do-Lyns join a growing number of UK imitators such as the Vernons Girls and the Orchids.
The Chrys-Do-Lyns first stage appearance (at the Wythenshawe Labour Club) is a disaster. Arriving for the show without any "dots" for the musicians and armed only with a tape recorder, the girls go on stage to find that neither they nor the audience can hear the backing tape. But the show must go on! The girls sing, the audience applaud and the tape carries on playing! Having only prepared one song, there is further embarrassment when they are then asked to sing another. The girls rush to the Ladies loo, run through the words of a second song and return to the stage 15 minutes later! Writing about the incident years later in a Fan Club Newsletter, Lyn's sister Mandi said:
"Mum and dad, Auntie Joyce and Uncle Ron went to give moral support. Doreen and Chris had their hair pinned on top of their heads, Lyn's thick pony tail hanging down her back. Mum said there was no sophistication there, just three raw school girls."
In 2014, in an interview with Stephen Bumfrey, Lyn reminisced about her very early days with the Chrys-Do-Lyns:
"We used to go every weekend and work at the local working men's clubs... Right in the middle of your act they'd say: 'Right' - and a bell would go - 'Right, ladies and gentlemen, the cockles have arrived!' And you'd just stop your act and you'd stand there for a minute... [Then] you'd start all over again... That's how you learn. You can cope with anything after that! " (BBC Radio Norfolk, Wednesday, 26th November 2014)
Incidentally...
In an interview in 2007 Lyn Paul recalled an incident from 1963: "When I was a kid in Manchester my parents told me to pop out and buy them a record. They wanted 'I Remember You' by Frank Ifield. When I got to the store, a friend of mine said 'Have you heard the new one by The Beatles?' and I listened, and I bought that instead. Very naughty! My parents were a bit surprised when I took it home. But they grew to love it as well!" The Beatles' record in question? Please, Please Me, which entered the UK singles chart on 24th January and made it to number 2. And at number 1? Frank Ifield! (Doncaster Free Press, 17th April 2007)
| In the News - 1963 |
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| Jan |
The Big Freeze of '63 brings Arctic weather conditions to the UK, leaving much of England and Wales covered in snow throughout January. In Wythenshawe they start the year with snow 9 inches deep. The upper reaches of the River Thames freeze over and on 22nd January a car is driven across the frozen Thames at Oxford.
The Lerner & Loewe musical Camelot closes at the Majestic Theatre in New York City on Saturday, 5th January after 873 performances.
The Broadway production of Lionel Bart's musical Oliver! opens at the Imperial Theatre the next day.
The Beatles' single Please Please Me is released in the UK on 11th January.
George Wallace is sworn in as Governor of Alabama on 14th January, proclaiming during his inaugural speech: "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
The leader of the UK Labour Party, Hugh Gaitskell, dies on 18th January, aged 56.
On 22nd January the President of France, Charles de Gaulle, and the Chancellor of West Germany, Konrad Adenauer, sign a treaty of friendship at the Élysée Palace in Paris.
Kim Philby, a former British diplomat working in Beirut, disappears on Wednesday, 23rd January.
Negotiations for Britain's entry into the European Economic Community (EEC) end in failure. On 29th January Britain is refused entry by a French veto. President de Gaulle says Britain is "not yet ready" to join the Common Market.
The US poet Robert Frost dies in Boston, Massachusetts on 29th January, aged 88.
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| Feb |
Abd al-Karim Qasim, the Prime Minister of Iraq, is overthrown in a coup d'état on 8th February and executed the next day.
The poet, novelist and short-story writer Sylvia Plath commits suicide at her mother's home in Primrose Hill on 11th February, aged 30.
Harold Wilson becomes the new leader of the Labour Party on 14th February.
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan is published on 19th February.
Sir Keith Joseph, the UK's Minister of Housing, announces to the House of Commons on 19th February that new towns will be built near to Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham to help speed up the slum clearance programmes in these cities.
Luciano Pavarotti makes his début at the Vienna State Opera in La Traviata on 23rd February.
On Wednesday, 27th February the former French army colonel Antoine Argoud is charged with trying to assassinate President De Gaulle in 1961.
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| Mar |
Patsy Cline is killed in a plane crash on 5th March, aged 30.
The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the maximum high-security Federal prison on Alcatraz Island, off the coast of San Francisco, California, is closed on Thursday, 21st March.
On the same day the UK government announces plans to introduce driverless trains on the London Underground.
On Friday, 22nd March the Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, tells fellow MPs that there was "no impropriety whatsoever" in his relationship with model Christine Keeler.
The Beatles first LP Please Please Me is released in the UK on the same day.
On Saturday, 23rd March Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann win the Eurovision Song Contest for Denmark with the song Dansevise.
On Wednesday, 27th March Richard Beeching's report, The Reshaping Of British Railways, is published, recommending the closure of over 2,100 railway stations in the UK.
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| Apr |
On 5th April, at a disarmament conference in Geneva, the Russians and the Americans agree to establish a direct telephone link between the Kremlin and the White House. The link is set up on 20th June.
Lawrence Of Arabia wins seven Oscars at the 35th Academy Awards ceremony on 8th April, including the awards for Best Picture and Best Director (David Lean).
President Kennedy proclaims Sir Winston Churchill an honorary citizen of the USA at a ceremony at the White House on 9th April.
Lester Pearson becomes Prime Minister of Canada on 22nd April, following a general election on 8th April and the resignation of John Diefenbaker on 17th April.
The Cuban Prime Minister, Fidel Castro, arrives in Moscow on 28th April for a month-long visit to the USSR.
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| May |
The UK government places orders for four Polaris submarines - two to be built by Cammel Laird in Birkenhead and two by Vickers-Armstrong in Barrow.
On 2nd May a “Children’s Crusade” sets off from the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in a peaceful protest against the segregation of blacks and whites in their city. Hundreds of children are arrested. The protest continues for three days, with children being confronted by police officers with batons, dogs and fire hoses.
Blues guitarist Elmore James dies from a heart attack on 24th May, aged 45.
At a summit conference in Addis Ababa, which ends on 25th May, the leaders of 32 African nations agree to found the Organisation of African Unity.
Actress Sharon Lynn, best known for her role as Lola Marcel, the villain in the Laurel and Hardy comedy Way Out West, dies on 25th May, aged 62.
On Monday, 27th May Jomo Kenyatta is elected Prime Minister of Kenya in the country's first multi-racial elections. He is sworn into office on 1st June.
The prominent anti-war activist Grigoris Lambrakis dies on 27th May, aged 51, after being brutally assaulted at an anti-war meeting in Thessaloniki on 22nd May.
On 28th and 29th May the Chittagong coast of East Pakistan is battered by a severe cyclone. More than 11,500 people are killed.
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| June |
Pope John XXIII dies on 3rd June, aged 81.
War Minister John Profumo admits on 4th June that he had lied about his relationship with Christine Keeler and resigns from the Government.
On Sunday, 16th June Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman and the fifth Soviet cosmonaut to travel in space. During her three-day mission, she circles the Earth 48 times.
The Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, is elected as the new Pope on 21st June. He takes the title Pope Paul VI.
13-year old Stevie Wonder, then known as Little Stevie Wonder, appears in the US singles chart for the first time on 22nd June when Fingertips Parts One And Two enters the Billboard Hot 100. Fingertips featured a young Marvin Gaye on drums.
On Wednesday, 26th June, while on a visit to West Berlin, US President John F. Kennedy makes a speech criticising Communism and the construction of the Berlin Wall: "Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in." To demonstrate his solidarity with the citizens of West Berlin he declares: "Ich bin ein Berliner."
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| July |
On 1st July the Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath announces to the House of Commons that the former Foreign Office civil servant Harold "Kim" Philby was the "third man" in the Burgess and MacLean spy scandal. On 30th July Soviet officials announce that Philby had been granted political asylum in the USSR.
Protesters greet King Paul I and Queen Frederica of Greece on their State visit to London (9th - 12th July). 94 people are arrested.
The Malta independence conference opens in London on 16th July.
On Friday, 19th July the US astronaut and test pilot Joe Walker flies an X-15 plane to a record-breaking altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet).
On 25th July the UK, USA and Russia initial a treaty in Moscow banning all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those carried out underground. President de Gaulle makes it known at a press conference on 29th July that France will not be bound by the test ban.
The Profumo affair continues to make the headlines. On 31st July Dr. Stephen Ward takes a fatal overdose. He dies on 3rd August.
The Peerage Act 1963, allowing renunciation of peerages, becomes law on 31st July. Within 22 minutes Anthony Wedgwood Benn becomes the first peer to renounce his title. Benn, who had entered Parliament on 4th December 1950 as the MP for Bristol South East, had been disqualified from taking his seat in 1961 after inheriting the title Viscount Stansgate from his father, who had died on 17th November the previous year. Malcolm St. Clair, who became the MP for Bristol South East after Benn's disqualification, effected his own resignation by accepting the office of Steward of the Manor of Northstead, thereby forcing a by-election.
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| Aug |
The Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty is formally signed in Moscow on 5th August by the USA, the UK and the Soviet Union.
What becomes known as the "Great Train Robbery" takes place on 8th August. £2.6 million is stolen from the Glasgow - London mail train at Cheddington, Buckinghamshire.
A new television pop show Ready, Steady, Go! is launched on Friday, 9th August, hosted by Cathy McGowan and Keith Fordyce.
Anthony Wedgwood Benn wins the by-election held in Bristol South East on 20th August. Neither the Conservative nor the Liberal parties fielded candidates.
Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I have a dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on 28th August.
On Friday, 30th August, in response to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, a Teletype 'hotline' is set up linking Washington and Moscow.
Guy Burgess, the former British diplomat and Soviet spy who had defected to the Soviet Union in 1951, dies in Moscow on 30th August, aged 52.
Georges Braque dies in Paris on 31st August, aged 81.
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| Sep |
On 2nd September Alabama Governor George Wallace orders the closure of Tuskegee High School, where the integration of black and white students had been due to start.
Ronnie Biggs, one of the Great Train robbers, is arrested on 4th September.
The American Express card is launched in the UK on 10th September.
On 15th September four black schoolgirls are killed and 22 injured in a Ku Klux Klan bomb attack on the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
On 18th September the British Embassy in Jakarta is burned by rioters demonstrating against the Malaysia union, established just two days earlier.
On the same day the United Nations imposes trade sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa.
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| Oct |
Nigeria becomes a republic on 1st October.
More than 6,000 people are killed when a hurricane hits the Caribbean islands of Cuba and Haiti.
Edith Piaf dies on 10th October, aged 47.
Harold Macmillan resigns on 18th October after nearly seven years as the British Prime Minister. He is succeeded by the Foreign Secretary, Lord Home, who renounces his title four days after becoming Prime Minister, and is known thereafter as Sir Alex Douglas-Home.
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| Nov |
On 1st November President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is deposed by a group of army officers led by General Doing Van Minh.
The Beatles appear on the Royal Variety Show on 4th November, which is remembered as much for John Lennon's much-quoted remark as it is for The Beatles' performance: "Those of you in the cheaper seats clap, the rest of you rattle your jewellery."
On Friday, 22nd November US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated while travelling through the streets of Dallas in an open-top car. Earlier in the day psychic Jean Dixon had predicted: "Something dreadful is going to happen to the President today." Vice President Lyndon Johnson is sworn in as the new President.
The writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley dies on the same day, aged 69.
C.S. Lewis also dies on 22nd November, aged 64.
On Saturday, 23rd November the BBC broadcasts the first episode of a new children's television series, Doctor Who. William Hartnell plays the title role.
Lee Harvey Oswald, the man charged with the murder of President Kennedy, is shot dead on 24th November while being taken to the county jail. Jack Ruby, a local nightclub owner, is charged with Oswald's murder.
The funeral of John F. Kennedy takes place on Monday, 25th November. Around 800,000 people line the streets of Washington to witness the funeral procession as it makes its way from the Capitol to St. Matthew's Cathedral.
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| Dec |
Christine Keeler, the model at the centre of the Profumo Affair, is jailed for nine months on 6th December after pleading guilty to perjury. Keeler admits that she had falsely accused her former lover Aloysius ‘Lucky’ Gordon of assaulting her. On 7th June, principally on her evidence, he had been found guilty and sentenced to three years in jail, a conviction later overturned by the Court of Appeal.
Kenya, formerly British East Africa, declares its independence from the United Kingdom on 12th December.
Dinah Washington dies from a drug overdose on 14th December, aged 39.
The Berlin Wall is opened on Friday, 20th December for the first time since it was erected in 1961, allowing West Berliners a day to visit friends and family in the Eastern sector.
128 people are killed on 22nd December by a fire aboard the Atlantic cruise liner Lakonia.
British troops are flown to Cyprus on 26th December following clashes between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
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| In the Charts |
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UK Chart débuts |
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- Herb Alpert
- The Beach Boys
- Cilla Black
- The Chiffons
- The Hollies
- The Isley Brothers
- Peter, Paul and Mary
- The Rolling Stones
- Dusty Springfield
- The Searchers
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| UK Best-selling Singles |
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- Shirley Bassey
I (Who Have Nothing)
- The Beatles
From Me To You
- The Beatles
I Want To Hold Your Hand
- The Beatles
Please, Please Me
- The Beatles
She Loves You
- The Beatles
Twist And Shout EP
- Chuck Berry
Memphis Tennessee
- Mike Berry
Don't You Think It's Time
- Joe Brown and The Bruvvers
That's What Love Will Do
- Ray Charles
Take These Chains From My Heart
- The Chiffons
He's So Fine
- The Crystals
Da Doo Ron Ron
- The Crystals
Then He Kissed Me
- Billie Davis
Tell Him
- Maureen Evans
Like I Do
- The Four Seasons
Walk Like A Man
- Freddie and The Dreamers
You Were Made For Me
- Billy Fury
Like I've Never Been Gone
- Billy Fury
When Will You Say I Love You
- Gerry and The Pacemakers
How Do You Do It
- Gerry and The Pacemakers
I Like It
- Gerry and The Pacemakers
You'll Never Walk Alone
- Lesley Gore
It's My Party
- Jet Harris and Tony Meehan
Diamonds
- Heinz
Just Like Eddie
- Buddy Holly
Bo Diddley
- Buddy Holly
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
- Frank Ifield
Confessin' (That I Love You)
- Frank Ifield
The Wayward Wind
- Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas
Bad To Me
- Brenda Lee
All Alone Am I
- Trini Lopez
If I Had A Hammer
- Ned Miller
From A Jack To A King
- Roy Orbison
Blue Bayou / Mean Woman Blues
- Roy Orbison
In Dreams
- Paul and Paula
Hey Paula
- Peter, Paul and Mary
Blowin' In The Wind
- Gene Pitney
Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa
- Brian Poole and The Tremeloes
Do You Love Me
- Elvis Presley
(You're The) Devil In Disguise
- Cliff Richard
It's All In The Game
- Cliff Richard and The Shadows
Bachelor Boy / The Next Time (from the film 'Summer Holiday')
- Cliff Richard and The Shadows
Don't Talk To Him
- Cliff Richard and The Shadows
Lucky Lips
- Cliff Richard and The Shadows
Summer Holiday
(from the film 'Summer Holiday')
- The Ronettes
Be My Baby
- The Searchers
Sweets For My Sweet
- The Searchers
Sugar And Spice
- The Shadows
Atlantis
- The Shadows
Dance On!
- The Shadows
Foot Tapper
- Del Shannon
Little Town Flirt
- Del Shannon
Two Kinds Of Teardrops
- Dusty Springfield
I Only Want To Be With You
- The Springfields
Island Of Dreams
- The Tornados
Globetrotter
- Bobby Vee
The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
- Andy Williams
Can't Get Used To Losing You
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| One Hit Wonders |
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- Angels
My Boyfriend's Back
- Dora Bryan
All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle
- Cascades
Rhythm Of The Rain
- Skeeter Davis
End Of The World
- Big Dee Irwin
Swinging On A Star
- Allan Sherman
Hello Muddah, Hello Fadder! (A Letter From Camp)
- Singing Nun
Dominique
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| Hit Albums |
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- The Beatles
Please, Please Me
- The Beatles
With The Beatles
- Brenda Lee
All Alone Am I
- Roy Orbison
In Dreams
- Cliff Richard and The Shadows
Summer Holiday
[Film Soundtrack]
- The Searchers
Meet The Searchers
- The Shadows
Out Of The Shadows
- West Side Story
[Original Soundtrack]
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| At the Movies |
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- Billy Liar
- The Birds
- Carry On Cabby
- Cleopatra
- From Russia With Love
- The Great Escape
- Heaven's Above!
- Irma La Douce
- It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
- Jason And The Argonauts
- Lord Of The Flies
- The Nutty Professor
- The Pink Panther
- Summer Holiday
- This Sporting Life
- Tom Jones
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| On Stage |
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Tony Award for Best Musical:
A Funny Thing Happened
On The Way To The Forum
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| On Television |
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- Benny Hill
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- Deputy Dawg
- The Des O'Connor Show
- The Dick Emery Show
- The Dick Van Dyke Show
- Doctor Who (Season 1)
- Maigret (Series 4)
- The Morecambe & Wise Show
(ATV)
- The Rag Trade
- Ready, Steady, Go!
- Steptoe And Son
(Series 2)
- Thank Your Lucky Stars
- That Was The Week That Was
- World In Action
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| Sporting Heroes |
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BBC Sport
BBC
Sports Personality
of the Year:
Dorothy Hyman
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Tennis: Margaret Smith wins the women's singles title at the Australian Championships, beating Jan Lehane O'Neill in the final for 4th consecutive year, 6-2, 6-2.
Roy Emerson wins the first of 5 straight Australian Championships, beating countryman Ken Fletcher in the men's singles final, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1.
At the French Open Emerson beats home favourite Pierre Darmon in the men's singles final, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4
Margaret Smith beats Billie Jean Moffat in the women's singles final at Wimbledon, 6-3, 6-4.
Chuck McKinley defeats Fred Stolle in the men's final, 9-7, 6-1, 6-4.
Athletics: the Japanese long-distance runner Toru Terasawa sets a new world record in the men's marathon on 17th February, with a time of 2 hours, 15 minutes and 16 seconds.
Rugby Union: England win the Five Nations Championship.
Rowing: the University of Oxford crew wins the annual Boat Race against Cambridge.
Horse Racing: Ayala wins the Grand National.
Golf: Jack Nicklaus wins the 27th US Masters at Augusta with a 3-foot par putt on the final hole to finish 1 stroke ahead of Tony Lema.
Julius Boros wins his second US Open title in an 18-hole playoff with Arnold Palmer and Jacky Cupit.
Football: Tottenham Hotspur beat Atletico Madrid 5-1 to become the first British football club to win the European Cup.
Alf Ramsey is appointed Manager of the England football team.
George Best makes his début for the Manchester United First Team. United beat Leicester City 3-1 in the FA Cup final.
Everton end the season as Champions of the Football League First Division.
Cycling: Jacques Anquetil wins the Tour de France for the third year in a row.
Rugby Union: Bridgend's record of 70 home matches undefeated comes to an end when the team loses to New Zealand.
Cricket: Sussex beat Worcestershire in the final of the first ever Gillette Cup competition.
Ken Barrington becomes the first cricketer to score a century against all seven Test playing countries.
Motor Racing: Jim Clark clinches the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship with victory in the Italian Grand Prix on 8th September.
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Who said that?
Careers Advice
You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
William Adams
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Sally Berger
Don't spend your life trying to please those who won't cry at your funeral.
Gerald Brooks
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you'll land among the stars.
Les Brown
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
Dr. David M. Burns
Always take a job that is too big for you.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.
Peggy Fleming
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland
If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
Katharine Hepburn
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
Henry Miller
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute.
J. D. Salinger
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith, 'Afterthoughts'
Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.
William Howard Stein
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Denis Waitley, 'Seeds Of Greatness'
The best careers advice to give the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it'.
Katherine Whitehorn
Destiny
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
Explore. Dream. Discover.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
James Truslow Adams
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Alan Alda
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.
Richard Willard Armour
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
James Arthur Baldwin
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
Bruce Barton
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
Leo Burnett
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine
Dream as if you'll live forever...
Live as if you'll die today.
James Dean
It's just that childhood dream, I guess. You think it's never really going to happen but I've realised now, nothing is impossible... If you've got this kind of dream, go for it! Maybe you'll be one of the lucky ones. If you believe in something and believe in yourself, do it!
Divine
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.
Napolean Hill
There are dreams of love, life, and adventure in all of us. But we are also sadly filled with reasons why we shouldn't try. These reasons seem to protect us, but in truth they imprison us. They hold life at a distance. Life will be over sooner than we think. If we have bikes to ride and people to love, now is the time.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Life's too short for wastin',
For ifs and might've beens,
Life's too short for wondering
If you could've lived your dreams.
L. Moran, D. Carton, B. Dooley, P. Doherty
The Saw Doctors, 'Share the Darkness'
If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.
Diana Nyad
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Marcel Proust
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg
As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
Zachary Scott
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
William Shakespeare, 'Julius Caesar' (Act IV, Scene III)
We are such stuff
As dreams are made on.
William Shakespeare, 'The Tempest' (Act IV, Scene I)
Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.
J. Michael Straczynski
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Ambroise Valery
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Wood
1963
Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) -
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And The Beatles' first LP.
Philip Larkin, 'Annus Mirabilis'
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